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Alm
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It depends what "veh" and where to. Some are either impossible or prohibitively expensive to import. There are exceptions (or used to be)
particularly for 5-9 year old cars and particularly to BCS. People importing 2006 pickup few posts above fell into this latter category (and good
timing too - next year they would've been out of luck, broker or no broker).
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Pescador
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Quote: Originally posted by yellowklr  | Its not that hard to import a VEH to Mexico………..If you live in MEXICO then import your car and get a Mex DL what is hard about that?
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The other option is to buy a new car here if you are a RP but I have a lot of trouble with the radio that only plays in Spanish. The Turn signals
don't work, and the brakes will not come to a full stop at the stop sign. Except for that it is a pretty cool car.
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I also was thinking about buying a new car here but didn't want the radio to be preset to it's loudest volume especially on Saturday nights! 
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: Originally posted by Alan | | Just heard from a friend in La Paz that Mexico is going to start cracking down on South Dakota plates and require that your DL must match the plate.
Not sure why Mexico is interested in enforcing US laws. Just wondering if anyone else has any more info on this. |
Maybe mexiCan cops are not interested in enforcing USA laws. Perhaps the cops are simply recognizing that the SD plates usually represent cars
imported to Mexico for a long duration, sometimes permanent, but creatively licensed to skirt mexico's import laws. And the cops are responding with
creative enforcement, eh.
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chuckie
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I think we all have to worry when South Dakota starts cracking down on South Dakota plates.....
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Alm
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| Quote: Originally posted by Pescador |
The other option is to buy a new car here if you are a RP but I have a lot of trouble with the radio that only plays in Spanish.
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Why do you even need a radio?  Last time I checked, there was one FM station in
St Rosalia (and in the entire 400 km stretch from GN to Loreto).
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Alan
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South Dakota
is not likely to shoot themselves in the foot. There is no down-side to them under the current arrangement. Hundreds of thousands dollars pour in to
them every year with zero impact to their infrastructure other than the minor costs of postage and handling.
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chuckie
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I think that's pretty obvious...BUT several other States are putting legal pressure on SD to enforce their own statutes.....
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J.P.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Alan | | South Dakota
is not likely to shoot themselves in the foot. There is no down-side to them under the current arrangement. Hundreds of thousands dollars pour in to
them every year with zero impact to their infrastructure other than the minor costs of postage and handling. |
I heard it's not a South Dakota thing it's a Clay county Thing And South Dakota isn't real Happy about it.
I personally think when it Fails it wont be from Internal pressure or other state Interference, the Elephant in the room will be Department of
Homeland Security
[Edited on 7-17-2015 by J.P.]
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chuckie
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You just may be correcto.....
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Udo
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IF SD goes down with the registrations, there are other states (albeit a handful) that can do the same thing.
Udo
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For SD, there's a small fortune in annual renewals that are cumulative. The average RVer is an RVer for years..it's the gift that keeps giving for
the state.
Critics say it could cost South Dakota millions of dollars by discouraging out-of-state registrations. South Dakota's licensing fees help counties pay
for road repairs, and the state collects a 3 percent excise tax on vehicles purchased and then licensed in South Dakota. New motor homes can cost
hundreds of thousands of dollars and the tax revenue adds up. Highly doubtful the state would give up all that.
What SD is interested in doing is..cracking down on fraud and abuses of the system. To discourage falsified applications and collect information on
where people really reside. Ultimately, that information could be used by other states to crack down on their residents who license cars, boats and
motor homes here.
[Edited on 7-17-2015 by Pompano]
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Most of us around Ensenada got our SD registration/plates from Clay County which has a total population of 13,864. Clay County plates used to be
recognizabe by the two digit prefix shown as "19". That is followed by a letter, a space, another letter and two more digits for 67,600 total
combinations with the first two digit prefix fixed at 19.
Last year all 67,600 combinations were used up and that's 4.88 vehicles for every man, woman and child in Clay County. After that they had to start
using unissued plates from the other 65 counties such as Jones, with a population of 1006 and a liscens plate prefix of "41" or Day with a population
of 1029 and a liscense plate prefix of "22".
Bob Durrell
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chuckie
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When I was up there last fall, hunting, it was really hard to find a parking spot.....
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ZipLine
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the Elephant in the room will be Department of Homeland Security
They've got an excuse for everything. Let's start cracking some old people's skulls and see if they might fess up.
All in good humor of course.
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Alm
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| Quote: Originally posted by Pompano |
Critics say it could cost South Dakota millions of dollars by discouraging out-of-state registrations. ....
What SD is interested in doing is..cracking down on fraud and abuses of the system. To discourage falsified applications and collect information on
where people really reside. |
They don't reside in SD, and SD knows that. Illegal thing to do in the states where they reside, but according to SD this is legal. For SD to crack
down on this kind of fraud, they need to simply ban such registrations. If they were "interested", they would've done it already, no?
[Edited on 7-18-2015 by Alm]
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akshadow
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sd plates/registration
Illegal thing to do in the states where they reside, but according to SD this is legal. For SD to crack down on this kind of fraud, they need to
simply ban such registrations. If they were "interested", they would've done it already, no?
[Edited on 7-18-2015 by Alm][/rquote]
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bajabuddha
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BINGO.
In the last 10+ years is the emerging full-time Baby-Boomer-RV crowd, sold the roost, and need a homing-base for legal reasons. Thank South Dakota
for not only promoting that, but the freedom of FREE MOVEMENT, and somewhat abiding some semblance of American law....
For the rest of you, who choose do so just for cheapishness, I don't blame you at all. I would too. I don't need to, as New Mexico takes care of
their disabled Vets. Otherwise, I'd do it too. However; if you choose to speed a little, which WE ALL DO from time to time, and you get caught, you
pay the ticket. Not the cop's fault.
In a tiny town in So. Utah the cop (s... there were two....) would watch for people with out of State plates in the P.O. parking lot, and if you
pulled mail out of a P.O. Box and had non-Utah plates, and were investigated for dual State citizenship was a HUGE fine of about $3K or so....
So we all play the system. I feel if you don't, you'z da fool. That's part of the fun of being alive, taking a risk now and then, big freakin' deal.
I ACTUALLY KNOW ONE PERSON FROM SOUTH DAKOTA WHO LIVES IN SOUTH DAKOTA AND HAS SOUTH DAKOTA PLATES !!! OHHH, EMMMM - GEEEE !!!!
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
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The most ridiculous plate scammer yet
On my flight back to Anchorage on the fourth of July, I ran into a friend I have known since I moved here in 1980. He no longer lives in Alaska, but
has family here, and has maintained an AK drivers license.
He told me that after five years of using an Alaska registered and plated vehicle for work, he finally got busted for it.....in Hawaii!
What was he thinking....that he could say he was just driving through?
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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